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Captain Tarabotto (as the Rex headed for Nice at a 25-knot clip): "The Rex averaged 28 knots for three days on her trials [TIME, Sept. 19] and made a knot more at intervals. The engines have not developed their full power...
...Exiled. New England offered the stiffest problem for this Eastern merger. The I. C. C. cut the knot by excluding New England from present plans. Originally New England was to have two consolidated systems?New Haven and Boston & Maine. Pennsylvania threatened this program when it began buying into the two New England roads. Last week the I. C. C. reported that it controlled 22% of New Haven and, with New Haven, 45% of B. & M. Such penetration by Pennsylvania alarmed the five New England governors who loudly resisted its "monopolistic invasion...
Eleven of the twelve Governors of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks met extraordinarily in Washington last week to un-kink another bad knot in the credit rope with which they are trying to pull the country out of its economic ditch. From Boston New York and Philadelphia, from Richmond, Atlanta and Dallas, from Cleveland, Chicago and St. Louis, from Minneapolis and San Francisco, they answered the call for consultation from Eugene Meyer, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, overlord of the nations credit and currency. Only George Henry Hamilton Governor of the Kansas City Reserve Bank, failed to appear...
...could find, his black tie fixed securely in place by pins in the tabs of his soft collar. Only ladies of the diplomatic corps were in low-cut evening gowns, only they wore jewels. Hostess Molotov, after careful thought, had done up her light brown hair in a knot at the back of her head, wore a black gown with full-length sleeves and a narrow white collar. As the orchestra, perched on a balcony of the ballroom, struck up a fox trot, the 500 guests paused awkwardly, looked questions at each other. Officially the All Union Communist Party frowns...
...Harding, film actress (Her Private Affair, Devotion, Paris Bound}; and Harry Bannister, film actor. Said Actress Harding: "We have been placed in a position which is untenable. . . . He [Bannister] is losing his identity . . . as 'Ann Harding's husband.' . . . We have decided . . . to cut the Gordian knot...